Assessment Task 2: Global Health Report Task Rationale The strategies used to tackle global health problems take many forms and have varying levels of success. These strategies may be developed and/or...

Assessment Task 2:
Global Health Report
Task Rationale
The strategies used to tackle global health problems take many forms and have varying levels of success. These strategies may be developed and/or implemented by local communities, national and international, or private organisations. Although these strategies are designed to improve the population’s health, they may not be as effective as planned or have unintended consequences.
    Assessment task:
    Written report
    Instruction:
    The task is to create a report on one strategy that addresses a global health problem in a country other than Australia.
Students are to evaluate the development and implementation of the strategy and how it addresses the needs of the population of interest. The report is to be formatted using the
template located on Learnline.
    Word limit:
    2000. words. Headings, tables, figures, and in-text citations are included in the word count; the reference page is not (a word count that is outside the ±10% range will lead to a reduction of
2001. of the total mark available for the assessment)
    Font:
    Times New Roman or Cali
i 12
    Line Spacing:
    1.5 or double
    Reference system:
    APA 7th (minimum 10 credible references no older than ten
years old)
    Header:
    Student ID (digits), unit code
    Footer:
    page numbe
    File format/submission:
    .doc or docx. To be submitted via Turnitin
    
    Assessment criteria
    Knowledge
    Students are required to submit an assignment on one of the following topic areas
· Mental health:
· Discuss the emerging trend for the use of psychedelic drugs as therapeutic agents in mental health and their history
· Aboriginal and To
es Strait Islander Heath:
· Discuss public health challenges for fresh drinking water, and compare access to fresh drinking water for remote communities and third world countries: Aboriginal and To
es Strait Islander Heath
· Infectious disease:
· Polio has recently been discovered during wastewater testing in New York state. Compare management of Polio eradication approaches in low-income countries to high income countries.
· Pandemic:
· Monkey pox has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation. Discuss a strategy that has been implemented by the WHO to address this pandemic
· Non-Communicable Diseases:
· Critically appraise the different public health approaches to addressing Trachoma with reference to one tropical low- or middle-income country and Australia
· Health Protection:
· The supreme court of America has overturned Roe Vs Wade. This has far reaching consequences for women seeking to terminate pregnancy. Discuss how this may impact third world countries that America provides health aid to.
Make clear links between the strategy and the healthcare problem, supporting the report with relevant population data and global health-related statistics.
These can be in the form of tables or graphs.
    
    
    Critical analysis
    Evaluate the development and implementation of the global health strategy; how it was developed, who developed it, how it was implemented, who it targeted, how it addresses the problem, and
whether it achieved its goal.
    Argument
    Provide a logical and coherent argument for or against the
strategy by identifying and synthesising credible references.
    Communication
    Communicate ideas coherently and logically, using language and
terms consistent with global health reports. Structure report using the headings provided.
    Academic conventions
    Use credible and reliable resources not older than ten years old.
Use APA 7th to format in-text referencing and reference list.

Global health report template
    Headings
    Task
    Title page
(Not included in word count)
    The title of the report, your name (and student number), the name of the course and the course code.
    Introduction/Background
XXXXXXXXXX)
    Describe the global health challenge that forms the basis of the report. Establish the importance of the global healthcare challenge and why it is important. Consider who is impacted and why this challenge must be addressed.
    Problem statement
XXXXXXXXXX)
    Explain why the problem exists, including a
ief analysis of factors that contribute to the healthcare challenge. This section could include graphs/tables.
    Global health strategy
XXXXXXXXXX)
(Sub-headings can be used in this
section, i.e., Development, implementation etc.)
    Identify and analyse one global health strategy (such as policy reform) that is or was used to address the identified healthcare challenge. Evaluate how it was developed, who developed it, how it was implemented, who it targeted, how it addresses the problem. This section should also include an analysis of potential or actual ba
iers to successful implementation.
    Conclusion
(250)
    Provide a conclusion to the report that reinforces the main arguments made. Do not introduce new information but use the reported information to clarify whether the strategy was successful or not successful and any gaps or problems discovered.
    References
    Use in-text referencing in APA 7th to format in-text referencing and the reference list.